This is part of our 100 Things in 2015 challenge. Here’s the full list.

I put no thought or planning into this challenge, other than to purposely make more time each day for reading.  Yet I still ended up with exactly 100 books!  (I thought I would have more, but the three I’m currently reading are pretty heavy, so are taking me longer than I expected.)

I mostly read whatever seems interesting and/or available at the time.  I’d say a good third of this list is in audiobook format. The chapter books I read aloud to the kids are also included. I pick up many of my books from thrift shops and the “new section” at the library. I’ve noticed a trend, however, I was really drawn to autobiographies and memoirs this year, especially if the author was writing about some type of Quest.

Here’s the list of everything I read this year. I linked up the ones I rated 5 stars, but I reviewed every single one of these on GoodReads.

1. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, by Frank Warren
2. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, by Cary Elwes
3. I Suck at Girls, by Justin Halpern
4. Revival, by Stephen King
5. Messenger, by Lois Lowry
6. Big Girl Panties, by Stephanie Evanovich
7. The Emigrants, by Wilhelm Moberg
8. Son, by Lois Lowry
9. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
10. Tender to the Bone, by Ruth Reichl
11. Danny the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl
12. The Romantic Movement, by Alain de Botton
13. Ramona Quimby Age 8, by Beverly Cleary
14. Living Oprah, by Robyn Okrant
15. Delicious, by Ruth Reichl
16. Girl Walks into a Bar, by Rachel Dratch
17. All Joy and No Fun, by Jennifer Senior
18. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo
19. Unto a Good Land, by Vilhelm Moberg
20. Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
21. Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest, by Jen Doll
22. The Stray, by Dick King-Smith
23. The Settlers, by Vilhelm Moberg
24. Portland: A Food Biography, by Heather Arndt Anderson
25. Rise of the Horde, by Devan Sagliani
26. Ramona Forever, by Beverly Cleary
27. Whitethorn Woods, by Maeve Binchy
28. A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
29. A Gift Upon the Shore, by M. K. Wren
30. Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin
31. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
32. The Last Letter Home, by Vilhelm Moberg
33. Chestnut Street, by Maeve Binchy
34. Herbie Jones, by Suzy Kline
35. Educating Alice, by Alice Steinbach
36. Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals, by Douglas Bauer
37. Life From Scratch, by Sasha Martin
38. Fried Eggs with Chopsticks, by Polly Evans
39. Stone Mattress, by Margaret Atwood
40. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
41. The Sweet Life in Paris, by David Lebovitz
42. You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught me the Secrets of Happiness, by Julie Klam
43. Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney
44. The Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner
45. Cleaving, by Julie Powell
46. Bitter is the New Black, by Jen Lancaster
47. Run Away Amish Girl, by Emma Gingerich
48. Glitter & Glue, by Kelly Corrigan
49. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, by Kathleen Flinn
50. A Week in the Woods, by Andrew Clements
51. The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman
52. Leaving the World, by Douglas Kennedy
53. The Girl with All the Gifts, by M. R. Carey
54. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not, by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello
55. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, by Susan Jane Gilman
56. I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections, by Nora Ephron
57. The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet — A Memoir, by Dara-Lynn Weiss
58. The Magician’s Nephew, by C. S. Lewis
59. Parenting Your Adopted Older Child, by Brenda McCreight
60. Hawaii The Big Island Revealed, by Andrew Doughty
61. What I was Doing While You Were Breeding, by Kristin Newman
62. The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009, edited by Lucy McCauley
63. Coming Clean, by Kimberly Rae Miller
64. In the Unlikely Event, by Judy Blume
65. Unabrow, by Una Lamarche
66. Ramona’s World, by Beverly Cleary
67. Wildfire!, by Elizabeth Starr Hill
68. Food, A Love Story, by Jim Gaffigan
69. How to Build a Girl, by Caitlin Moran
70. Pretty in Plaid, by Jen Lancaster
71. Lonely Planet an Innocent Abroad, by Don George
72. Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
73. Stargone John, by Ellen Kindt McKenzie
74. I Regret Nothing: A Memoir, by Jen Lancaster
75. Stone Fox, by John Reynolds Gardiner
76. Skinnybones, by Barbara Park
77. Finding Audrey, by Sophie Kinsella
78. Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors, by Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein
79. You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), by Felicia Day
80. If You Were Here, by Jen Lancaster
81. The Tao of Martha, by Jen Lancaster
82. Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson
83. Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
84. Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling
85. I Don’t Have a Happy Place, by Kim Korson
86. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, by Kathleen Flinn
87. How to Eat Fried Worms, by Thomas Rockwell
88. Mess: One Man’s Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act, by Barry Yourgrau
89. The Half-a-Moon Inn, by Paul Fleischman
90. The Know-it-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A.J. Jacobs
91. Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
92. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert
93. My Fair Lazy, by Jen Lancaster
94. I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star, by Judy Greer
95. The Apocalypse Renegades, by Peter Meredith
96. My Heart is an Idiot, by Davy Rothbart
97. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, by Issa Rae
98. The Apocalypse Exile, by Peter Meredith
99. Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed
100. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen